The Russian Embassy in Ottawa asked the city to fly the Russian flag and illuminate a wing of City Hall to mark Russia Day on Sunday, but the city refused.
According to the City of Ottawa, the Embassy of the Russian Federation made the request on Feb. 23, the day before the invasion began. Russia Day is June 12.
Russia Day commemorates the creation of the Russian Federation on June 12, 1990. The national holiday was first observed in 1992. In early March, Watson joined Andrii Bukvych, chargé d'affaires at the Ukrainian Embassy in Ottawa, to install blue and yellow signs readingAt the time, Watson called the gesture "a small symbol of defiance."'They don't care about public opinion', the city "will fly the flag of any nation on its national day with whom Canada has diplomatic relations."
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